VILLAGE PLANS - Offaly County Council

OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2009 - 2015
Volume 2 - Settlement Plans
2.3 Other Services
a) Social and Community Infrastructure
Coolderry has a small base of such facilities serving
both the settlement and the surrounding area. These
include the following (as at 2007)
• Church (R.C.)
• National school
• Community Hall
• GAA facility
b) Roads
New roads, which are necessary to serve in-depth
development in Coolderry, will be required to be
designed and constructed to a high standard, in order
to provide an attractive and safe environment. While
these may be provided by separate developments it is
intended that over time, they will evolve into an
integrated network of routes allowing movement
around and through the village. This will require
adjoining landowners / development interests to
co-operate at an early stage.
c) Footpaths
Footpath provision and street lighting are both very
poor.
3.0 KEY MESSAGES FOR COOLDERRY
a) Coolderry shall be developed in a properly
planned coherent manner centred around the
existing core, so that an attractive sustainable
outcome is achieved. Policies and objectives with
regard to village development are contained in
the County Development Plan, 2009-2015,
Chapter 4, Settlement Strategy.
b) Promotion of low-density clustered style
development within the village, with the
exception of slightly tighter knit development to
help delineate the “core” area at the “other
settlement land” marked ‘1’ on the plan.
c) Avoidance of excessive residential growth where
such growth would precede the provision of
adequate services, or adversely affect the
village’s rural character.
d) Ensure that development shall bring some
character to the settlement and move on from
the suburban feel of the current new
development.
e) Promotion of Coolderry as a small local service
centre and to create the critical mass necessary
for maintaining and attracting services.
f) The conservation and integration into new
development of existing stone walls, trees and
native hedgerows, and promotion of similar
materials for new boundaries.
g) High quality designs, which are reflective of the
existing rural character of the village, without
precluding high quality innovative contemporary
designs.
h) Promotion of natural building and boundary
materials.
4.0 GENERAL DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVES
4.1 The Main Objectives Driving Village
Development are as Follows:
• Facilitate people to live in high quality and
primarily low density housing in a rural village
location.
• Maintain and enhance services at a local level.
• Reinforce the attractive rural village, which exists
at present by permitting appropriate and
sensitively designed new development. Create
commercial and service opportunities.
4.2 Growth Rate
The rate of growth will be regulated by the capacity and
availability of physical and social infrastructure.
Furthermore it shall not be allowed to take place at the
expense of the village’s character. See County
Development Plan 2009-2015, Chapter 4, Settlement
Strategy.
4.3 Priorities
a) Promotion and consolidation of development
within the development boundary as shown on
the accompanying plan.
b) Improvement of the existing road network and
provision of footpaths, particularly where
development is not served by footpaths, in
conjunction with on-going development.
c) Create / reinforce ‘gateway’ features to engender
a sense of place and delineate the village.
d) Encourage and facilitate co-operation between /
amongst the different development interests in
order to maximise community gain, for the
greater good of the settlement.
February 2009 | Coolderry Village Plan | page 87